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liftoff

noun as in rocket launch

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verb as in take flight

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Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, indefinitely postponed the slated Sunday launch of its New Glenn rocket, citing unfavorable cloud cover at its liftoff site in Florida.

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Diaz was making money writing songs — Connie Britton sang one of her tunes on the soapy ABC series “Nashville” — but she struggled to achieve the kind of liftoff she was looking for as an artist.

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Then it would be a matter of seconds before liftoff.

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Gurr created the initial design, a “Buck Rogers”-inspired space age vehicle, as Gurr wanted it to feel sleek and ready for liftoff.

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Losing time sounds like it should slot neatly into a ticking-clock suspense film, but it never achieves liftoff the way “Memento” turned an amnesiac’s daily struggle into catnip.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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